At precisely 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Somerville programmers Wyatt Greene and Jay Howard rang in the New Year (well, they were actually still in their beds). Continue reading
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FOLLOW-UP: METALWOULFE @ ART BASEL MIAMI
For one week every December Miami Beach gussies itself up for an influx of, well, everyone. There are the Christian Marclays, the Paris Hiltons, the Larry Gagosians, but perhaps most significantly, a gaggle of paint splattered independents looking to make names for themselves at contemporary art’s most noteworthy celebration: Art Basel.
Still coming off a high of energy, inspiration and a week of straight painting, we caught up with Dana Woulfe, the Boston-based half of graffiti team MetalWoulfe for an update on what they produced at the annual art fest. Continue reading
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THE HUNDREDS SHOW @ LINCOLN ARTS PROJECT TONIGHT
That “art” you bought at Urban Outfitters is lame. Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: JOHN SLEPIAN
Every artist is preoccupied with something. Sex. Death. Media. Time. For John Slepian the preoccupation is art itself.
“It is very much art about art,” Slepian says of his solo exhibition, Update, currently on display at the Axiom Gallery. He says he hopes his pieces pose a list of questions: “What part of it is what you’re looking at? What part of it is what you’re experiencing? What does it mean to look at something like painting in the world that we live in now? What were people thinking when they were making classic modern art? Was the world different then? It kind of was.”
Update is a collision of two worlds– mid-century Modernism transformed by the mechanisms of the 21st century. Continue reading
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JANET ECHELMAN: A NEW KIND OF NETWORK
It started out rather modestly– piles of netting decorating an Indian seashore. An age-old material for an age-old trade. But what became of it was something grandiose, something that invades environments with delicacy and grace, tilting chins upwards in wonder.
“It’s not that I set out to create sculptures that moved in the wind,” artist Janet Echelman said last night to a stuffed amphitheatre at Northeastern University. “It’s that I discovered it.”
Known for her public net installations, Echelman addressed finding new mediums, transforming environments and fitting 1.5 million hand-tied knots into checked baggage. Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: PHIDIAS GOLD
“People that have been in the neighborhood forever swear in the middle of summer they can still smell molasses,” Scott Chasse says, Community Arts Director at the Distillery Gallery.
The brick structure that settles silently into the industrial South Boston landscape dates back to the mid-1800s and is known to most for a famous molasses byproduct: rum.
“The water used to come right up to the back parking lot so boats could deliver molasses to the property,” Chasse continues. They keep a Felton’s New England rum bottle at the front desk, produced decades ago in this very building. Continue reading
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TODAY: SIGN PAINTING DEMO WITH THE PRE-VINYLITE SOCIETY
“Sign painters, historically, are pretty badass,” says Best Dressed Signs founder, Josh Luke. “They used to just travel around with their sign kits and just kindof smoke and drink and paint signs.”
It’s a romantic notion, really, the rogue sign painters of yore. And despite their almost-extinction at the advent of the vinyl sign, the trade is finding it’s way back into today’s society with a group casually dubbed the “Pre-Vinylites.” Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: BLACK OCEAN
We’ve begun to see poetry as something archaic. Something irrelevant. Something reserved for a bespectacled cluster of Emerson kids gathered around E.E. Cummings’ grave. Presently, local publishing and production company, Black Ocean, is defying that notion. Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: JOINTISSUE
“When you come in, it will be transformed,” says Jimena Bermejo-Black of the presently quite ordinary dance studio on Central Square’s Green Street.
“We’re going to darken everything and we’ll have people led through the space by a rope.”
This Saturday and Sunday, performance collaborative, Jointissue, will present Body/Bawdy/B Awe D at Green Street Studios, a collection of film and performance art that takes a closer look at the human form. Continue reading
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PREVIEW: PERPETUAL IN-TERRA-ACTION
Getting interactive with the longest painting in Boston Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: DANA WOULFE
Spray cans, dripping buckets and brushes are scattered about. Two artists are splattered with paint. A new golden rectangle containing shards of color is emerging from the public wall in Central Square. Continue reading
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PHANTASMA: SUPPLY & DEMAND
“How to make a skateboard” is painted in loopy cursive across the doorway. Diagrammed steps include: find an old ski (“you can find them sometimes at thrift stores or yard sales”), find an old roller skate, gather some tools, assemble.
“You can decorate your board any way you want but you get extra points if you do your own design instead of just stickers,” says a note beside the final product.
This witty diagram by skate punk forefather Tim Kerr and more skate-infused art is currently on display at the Orchard Skateshop Extension Gallery until November 10. The show that started at the House of Vans in Brooklyn under the moniker Supply & Demand, synthesizes the work of skate art legends Chris Yormick, Rich Jacobs, Russ Pope, Jay Howell and Tim Kerr. Continue reading
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